Physics at the terascale
By: edited by Ian C. Brock and Thomas Schörner-Sadenius
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Weinheim, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9783527410019; 9783527634989; 9783527634972; 9783527634965; 9783527634996
Subjects: Particles (Nuclear physics); Colliders (Nuclear physics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1: The Physics. Setting the Scene / Ian C Brock, Thomas Schorner-Sadenius; title: The Standard Model: Our Picture of the Microcosm / Markus Diehl, Wolfgang Hollik; title: Electroweak and Standard Model Tests: the Quest for Precision / Klaus Monig, Georg Steinbruck; title: Hard QCD: Still Going Strong / Sven-Olaf Moch, Klaus Rabbertz; title: Monte Carlo Generators and Fixed-order Calculations: Predicting the (Un)Expected / Stefan Gieseke, Zoltan Nagy; title: The Higgs Boson: Still Elusive After 40 Years / Markus Schumacher, Michael Spira; title: Supersymmetry / Herbert Dreiner, Peter Wienemann; title: Quark Flavour Physics / Gudrun Hiller, Ulrich Uwer; title: Top Quarks: the Peak of the Mass Hierarchy? / Peter Uwer, Wolfgang Wagner; title: Beyond SUSY and the Standard Model: Exotica / Christophe Grojean, Thomas Hebbeker, Arnd Meyer; title: Forward and Diffractive Physics: Bridging the Soft and the Hard / Jochen Bartels, Kerstin Borras.; title: Part 2: The Technology. Accelerators: the Particle Smashers / Helmut Burkhardt, Jean-Pierre Delahaye, Gunther Geschonke; title: Detector Concepts: from Technologies to Physics Results / Ian C Brock, Karsten Busser, Thomas Schorner-Sadenius; title: Tracking Detectors: Following the Charges / Jorn Grosse -Knetter, Rainer Mankel, Christoph Rembser; title: Calorimetry: Precise Energy Measurements / Felix Sefkow, Christian Zeitnitz; title: Muon Detectors: Catching Penetrating Particles / Kerstin Hoepfner, Oliver Kortner; title: Luminosity Determination: Normalising the Rates / Ian C Brock, Hasko Stenzel; title: Trigger Systems in High Energy Physics Experiments / Eckhard Elsen, Johannes Haller; title: Grid Computing in High Energy Physics / Wolfgang Ehrenfeld, Thomas Kre.; title: Part 3: The Organisation. The Sociology and Management of Terascale Experiments: Organisation and Community / R Michael Barnett, Markus Nordberg; title: Funding of High Energy Physics / Klaus Ehret; title: The Role of the Big Labs / Albrecht Wagner; title: Communication, Outreach and the Terascale / James Gillies, Barbara Warmbein.